The Oxford Guide to Film Studies

List of Contributors List of Illustrations John Hill: General Introduction PART ONE: CRITICAL APPROACHES = 1 1: Richard Dyer: Introduction to Film Studies = 3 STUDYING THE FILM TEXT = 11 2: Robert Phillip Kolker: The Film Text and Film Form = 11 3: Paul McDonald: Film Acting = 30 4: Pamela Church Gibson: Film Costume = 36 5: Claudia Gorbman: Film Music = 43 THE FILM TEXT: THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS = 51 6: Anthony Easthope: Classic Film Theory and Semiotics = 51 7: Ian Christie: Formalism and Neo-formalism = 58 8: Robert B Ray: Impressionism, Surrealism, and Film Theory = 67 9: Barbara Creed: Film and Psychoanalysis = 77 10: Peter Brunette: Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction = 91 11: John Hill: Film and Postmodernism = 96 FILM TEXT AND CONTEXT: GENDER, IDEOLOGY, AND IDENTITIES = 106 12: Chuck Kleinhans: Marxism and Film = 106 13: Patricia White: Feminism and Film = 117 14: Anneke Smelik: Gay and Lesbian Criticism = 135 15: Alexander Doty: Queer Theory = 148 16: Laura Kipnis: Pornography = 153 17: Robyn Wiegman: Race, Ethnicity, and Film = 158 18: Rey Chow: Film and Cultural Identity = 169 FILM TEXT AND CONTEXT: CULTURE, HISTORY, AND RECEPTION = 176 19: Dudley Andrew: Film and History = 176 20: Andrew Tudor: Sociology and Film = 190 21: Graeme Turner: Cultural Studies and Film =195 22: Jostein Gripsrud: Film Audiences = 202 23: Noel King: Hermeneutics, Reception Aesthetics, and Film Interpretation = 212 PART TWO: AMERICAN CINEMA AND HOLLYWOOD: CRITICAL APPROACHES. = 225 AMERICAN CINEMA: HISTORY, INDUSTRY, AND INTERPRETATION = 227 1: John Belton: American Cinema and Film History = 227 2: Duncan Petrie: History and Cinema Technology = 238 3: Douglas Gomery: Hollywood as Industry = 245 4: Tom Gunning: Early American Film = 255 5: E. Ann Kaplan: Classical Hollywood Film and Melodrama = 272 6: Peter Kramer: Post-classical Hollywood = 289 CRITICAL CONCEPTS = 310 7: Stephen Crofts: Authorship and Hollywood = 310 8: Tom Ryall: Genre and Hollywood = 327 9: Jeremy G. Butler: The Star System and Hollywood = 342 POLITICS AND SOCIETY = 354 10: Douglas Kellner: Hollywood Film and Society = 354 11: Albert Moran: Film Policy: Hollywood and Beyond = 365 12: Toby Miller: Hollywood and the World = 371 PART THREE: WORLD CINEMA: CRITICAL APPROACHES = 383 REDEFINING CINEMA: INTERNATIONAL AND AVANT-GARDE ALTERNATIVES = 385 1: Stephen Crofts: Concepts of National Cinema = 385 2: Murray Smith: Modernism and the Avante-Gardes = 395 3: Ashish Rajadhyaksha: Realism, Modernism, and Post-Colonial = 413 REDEFINING CINEMA: OTHER GENRES = 426 4: John Izod & Richard Kilborn: The Documentary Film = 426 5: Michael OPray: The Animated Film = 434 EUROPEAN CINEMA = 440 6: Ginette Vincendeau: Iss ues in European Cinema = 440 CASE-STUDIES: MOVEMENTS, MOMENTS, AND FILMMAKERS = 449 7: Ian Christie: The Avant-Gardes and European Cinema before 1930 = 449 8: Simona Monticelli: Italian Post-War Cinema and Neo-Realism = 455 9: Jill Forbes: The French Nouvelle Vague = 461 10: Ulrike Sieglohr: New German Cinema = 466 11: Daniel Goulding: East-Central European Cinema = 471 12: Armand Mattelart: European Film Policy and the Response to Hollywood = 478 13: Directors and Stars = 486 Keith Reader: (a) Jean Renoir = 486 Chris Darke: (b) Ingmar Bergman = 488 Cathy Fowler: (c) Chantal Akerman = 489 José Arroyo: (d) Pedro Almodóvar = 491 Susan Hayward: (e) Luc Besson = 494 Brigitte Bardot: (f) Ginette Vincendeau = 496 ANGLOPHONE NATIONAL CINEMAS = 501 CASE-STUDIES = 501 14: Andrew Higson: British Cinema = 501 15: Martin McLoone: Ireland and Cinema = 510 16: Elizabeth Jacka: Australian Cinema = 516 17: Will Straw: Canadian Cinema = 523 WORLD CINEMA = 527 18: Wimal Dissanayake: Issues in World Cinema = 527 CASE-STUDIES: CINEMAS OF THE WORLD = 535 19: Ashish Rajadhyaksha: Indian Cinema = 535 20: Berenice Reynaud: Chinese Cinema = 543 21(a): Stephen Teo: Hong Kong Cinema: Discovery and Pre-Discovery = 550 21(b): N. K. Leung: China, and 1997 = 554 22: Kuan-Hsing Chen: Taiwanese New Cinema = 557 23: Freda Freiberg: Japanese Cinema = 562 24 Zc African Cinema: N. Frank Ukadike: = 569 25: Julianne Burton-Carvajal: South American Cinema = 578 FILM IN A CHANGING AGE = 595 26: Laura Kipnis: Film and Changing Technologies = 595 27: John Hill: Film and Television = 605 List of Picture Sources and Readings = 612 Index of Selected Name and Film Titles = 613

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